android - share session between two webviews?

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first of all, can someone please explain how does CookieManager.getInstance() work? I don't really get how I can get the session from webview? Lets say if I have this

CookieSyncManager.createInstance(WebviewPage.this);
CookieManager cookieManager = CookieManager.getInstance();

Do I get the session from the class named WebviewPage? but what if I named my actual WebView to webview, how can cookieManager get the session of webview? not even talk about if I had two WebView, webview1 and webview2. How do I know which session that was stored in cookieManager??

My main question is...I have two activities and one webview in each activity. How can I get the session from Activity A and pass it to the webview in Activity B?

Thanks!!!

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 21 '13 at 06:33

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As far as I know, you don't need to set cookie for webview2. webview2 will automatically use the cookies from webview1.

answered Jun 21 '13 at 06:33

gZerone

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how does that work? do all the webviews (in the same activity and different) are sharing the same session? – user1865027 Jun 21 '13 at 15:51
does that mean no matter where I call `CookieManager.getInstance();`, it will always get the same session? – user1865027 Jun 21 '13 at 15:54
Yes, when you call CookieManager.getInstance(); in the same app, it will always get the same session. – gZerone Jun 24 '13 at 02:14
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yes. All webviews in the same app will share the same session – gZerone Jun 24 '13 at 02:16
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i've tried it, but it doesn't seem to be that way...cookie & session are not shared. – user1865027 Jun 28 '13 at 00:06

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 26 '14 at 22:35

CookieManager seems to be a singleton, so when you call getInstance() you always get the same instance. So if webview 1 set some cookies on the CookieManager, or if you set it your self using set Cookie, all other webviews should get the same cookies as well.

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